delicious little cook

Chapter 174 The Grocery Store in Yirenfang

"My son, don't be in a daze for now, how do you write this letter?"

"Let's just say that after the results are released, I may go to a government school to study, go shopping in the street, and have no time to play with him. Just write it like this."

Bai Kou picked up a pen and swiped the draft, read it to make sure it was correct, and called Qing Lan to come in to grind the ink to replace the pen, and seized the time to send someone out to deliver the letter.

After serving the son's afternoon snack and preparing to make dinner, Mama Pang came to find Bai Kou and said that Master Yi Guogong's grandson, Master Huang Bin, would come to visit his aunt tomorrow and asked Bai Kou to make some special snacks for the guests.

Bai Kou agreed with a smile, and turned to tell the prince.

Gu Yun didn't want to do it anymore.

"You go out with me tomorrow."

"The servant girl promised to make snacks for guests tomorrow."

"You do it tonight."

"How can a man bring a servant girl when he eats wine? He can't lift it when he's drunk."

"Where are you talking so much?"

"The servant girl has never ridden a horse before, she is a bit timid."

"If you don't go out with me tomorrow, you don't want to have a chance to go out in the future."

Bai Kou silently opened the book to take a closer look at the place where the young masters will have a drink and party tomorrow, and suddenly laughed, only then did she realize that she was going to Yirenfang tomorrow.

"What are you laughing at?"

"It turns out that tomorrow we are going to Yirenfang. That's just right. The young masters have wine, and the servant girl goes shopping."

"This can be."

Bai Kou hurriedly resigned, and sent someone to the stable to deliver a message, asking the groom to prepare Zao Ni tomorrow.

In the evening, the kitchen was cleaned up, and Bai Kou made all kinds of snacks by himself, all of which could be used as snacks.

Mama Pang came over to drink water, and when she saw Bai Kou, she asked curiously, and learned that the reason for the incident was only because the young master didn't want to be dragged by Huang Bin to play polo, so she laughed so hard.

Bai Kou just took the opportunity to mention to her that the second wife was going to transfer people from the East Kitchen, and told her clearly that Lu Doudou and the other three girls were unwilling to leave the public house, and conveyed their loyalty to the long house.

Mama Pang understood, and went back to discuss with the eldest lady.

The next morning, the weather looked pretty good in the morning, with blue sky, white clouds, and a cool breeze, but when I was about to go out after breakfast, the sky turned gloomy, like a cloudy sky and piled up rain clouds.

Gu Yun decisively changed the carriage and left with Bai Kou.

In the carriage, the two sat on one side of the box, Bai Kou opened the curtains of the car, and looked out at the street scene through the screen window.

There is a big river outside the capital city, so there are waterways in the city. The moat surrounding the imperial city is full of running water. When the prince married the princess as an adult and left the palace to open the mansion, he also first chose a lot from these workshops.

Although Lord Ye was the first-class founding father of the country, he was not allocated to the coastal workshops but Tianshuifang when he was rewarded for meritorious service and given homesteads at the beginning. The land occupied by Ye State Duke's Mansion was so considerable after it was completed, and there were several large gardens before and after, which was within the limit, because the land was rewarded by Emperor Taizu.

The inland river that serves as the boundary between Shangfang and Zhongfang is called Liangdu River, because the east and west ends of this river run through the eastern and western cities, which occupy an area equivalent to the combined area of ​​the northern and southern squares. Shuangyuanlou, famous for its delicious big buns, is just beside the ferry in Dongshi, next to Yuanqiao in Yuanjie.

Yirenfang is just to the west of Dongshi, on the south bank of Liangdu River, so the transportation of goods is extremely convenient.

Gu Yun's carriage drove along the East-West Avenue in the capital, passed the flat-topped bridge over the Liangdu River, turned to the east, walked straight along the embankment, and entered from the north gate of Yirenfang facing the embankment.

As soon as the carriage entered Yirenfang, Bai Kou's eyes would be glued to the car window and not to be taken off. In the past, it took a lot of time to walk from Yachifang to Yirenfang. Here's the chance.

The residents in Yirenfang are naturally mainly foreigners with colorful hair and eyes. Even if some have black hair and black eyes, their facial features are not Chinese.

The carriage drove up Cross Street smoothly, and stopped in front of an exotic restaurant. The beautiful red-haired wine lady twisted her soft waist and opened the door with a smile to welcome the distinguished guests.

Bai Kou reported Gu Yun's name, and was welcomed to the reserved private room on the third floor. It wasn't Gu Yun who invited people for the party, but he was the first one to come.

After serving tea, snacks and a fruit plate, Xiaoer quietly retreated without disturbing the rest of the guests.

This private room is a layout for banquets, with low couches surrounding the wall and low tables, leaving room in the middle for dancers to dance and entertain.

Bai Kou had never been to this kind of place before, she walked around with great interest, lay on the window sill and looked out, and found that the location of the restaurant was very good, directly facing the river, and the floor was higher than the wall of the workshop, from the window you could see to the nice river view.

"My lord, do you have any other orders?" Bai Kou returned to Gu Yun's short table, knelt on one side, picked up a piece of fruit with two toothpicks and handed it to the young master.

"You want to leave?"

"It's rare to come out. Yirenfang is so big, I want to take a stroll and see what's new."

"Go, go, keep a low profile when shopping, I don't want to hear the news that you are fighting with people on the street again when you are half drunk."

"Do your best, maidservant." Bai Kou smiled, took out the prince's money bag from the small purse, tied it on his belt, and ran away happily.

Going downstairs to the lobby on the first floor, Bai Kou asked the waiter where the carriage was parked, and went to the backyard to get an umbrella from the carriage before going out to the street. The guards who came with the carriage were not as free as she was, so they could only take turns walking around.

When Bai Kou arrived on the street, she asked passers-by for shops selling pens and inks. She searched one after another, and finally found a high-end grocery store that sold the ink she needed. After coming to Yirenfang, Bai Kou himself will find a chance to come.

There was a special mark on the pen and ink box that the eldest lady gave her back then, and Bai Kou covered the box lid with paper and traced it, and then took out the pen and showed it to the shopkeeper.

"Oh, it happens to be our Ufazaghi's pen and ink, there are some, please wait a moment, and I will go to the back and bring them to you."

The shopkeeper, with black curly hair, recognized the marks on the paper at a glance, and speaking with a Beijing accent, he immediately beckoned the staff to go to the warehouse to pick up things.

"You Ufa Zaghi? Which Ufa Zaghi?" Bai Kou is very sensitive to the word Zaghi, but he has never heard of Ufa Zaghi.

"It's the Lanbao Zhaji who is rich in all kinds of high-end gemstones. Four years ago, the mission presented a beautiful woman to your emperor and was named Mrs. Lanbao. I heard that she seems to be pregnant."

"Are you a citizen of Lanbaozaghi? What happened to Ufazaghi? Reunified?"

"Hey, the little girl understands quite well, do you know that we were split before?"

"I also know that the division of your country is caused by several brothers wanting to be king."

"That's right, Lanbaozaghi was the most powerful at that time, but it was not easy to annex the divided land. If you fight one, you will be besieged by others, until our King Dalso of Lanbaozaghi personally led the mission to come. After submitting the credentials, the two countries established friendship and received strong assistance, and finally unified the country." The shopkeeper said with a strong sense of pride.

"Congratulations. I only know the old Lanbao Zaghi, but I don't know the current Ufa Zaghi. The reunification of the country is beneficial to the country and the people."

"That's right!"

The shopkeeper laughed so hard that his wrinkles piled up. For the people, this is of course a great joy.

(Author's note: Double update every day, 12:20 noon and [-]:[-] pm every day, fixed update, thank you for your support this week, next time there are recommendations and more updates!)
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